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SATURDAY EVENT: CHRISTMAS CAKES AND CUPCAKES!
Posted by Theresa111 • 12/13/09
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Everyone is invited to join me Saturday afternoon and into the evening for our Christmas Cakes and Cupcakes Event.
Break out your favorite recipes, favorite cake molds and prepare show us what you bake. Make sure to get creative in your decorations.
Some mulled wines or hot festive drinks are also welcomed.
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I pressed enter before I had the chance to change it to Holiday Cakes and Cupcakes. I include everyone and all religious holiday revelers. We are all Children of the Earth.
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Love to join you Theresa! I will break out the pans,decorations and recipes and let my imagination take control! (Oh well, it is good to have goals.)
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We shall see! I have a snowflake cake I need an excuse to get started on
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Does it have coconut or not? Does it take a star shaped pan? I hope so.
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Neither - it's topped with snowflakes
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Whatzzz in the snowflakes? Hmmmmm ...?
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Nothing in them - they're made from white coating - piped onto parchment and topped with dragees - usually silver, but I couldn't find them this year so I'm using pearlized ones.
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I'm looking through my cookbooks to try something new.
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I am thinking that I would like to make a Red Velvet cake. I keep hearing how wonderful these cakes are and have never tasted Red Velvet cake. I am told it is sooooo good so I think I will try to make one.
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Red velvet is very moist.
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Waldorf Astoria's Red Velvet Cake
1/2 c. shortening
1 1/2 c. sugar
2 eggs
2 oz. red food coloring
2 tsp. cocoa
1 c. buttermilk
2 1/4 c. flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. soda
FROSTING: (inside & top not sides):
3 tbsp. flour
1 c. milk
1 c. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. butter
Cream shortening, sugar and eggs. Make a paste of coloring and cocoa. Add to
mixture. Add buttermilk, alternately with flour and salt. Add vanilla. Add
soda to vinegar, holding over bowl as it foams; add to mixture by blending,
not beating. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes at 350 degrees in 3 (8 inch) greased
and floured pans (or 2 layers and split in half).
FROSTING: Cook flour and milk until thick (over dough-boiler, stirring
constantly - may use mixer to smooth). Chill in refrigerator. Cream sugar,
butter and vanilla until fluffy. Add to first mixture after 25 plus minutes.
Mix until well blended.
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Got a vegeterian cookbook today from a thrift store and she has a few cake recipes in it I think (like over 1000 pages) I will see what is in there. I need to make something sweet this weekend for hubby he is off for 11 days straight and when I make it while he works the kids usually eat it all up before he gets home lol
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They sound like good conscientious children. Exactly as I would have eaten as a kid. Well maybe I would have saved Daddy a slice. :
Oh, did you mean there are 1,000 pages of veg recipes for cakes?
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Get your recipe(s) ready for tomorrow. It's a party!
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bought the stuff for my cake today and making it this afternoon. Will post pics and all tomorrow
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I got my cake done. I will post pics tommorrow but if you are ding to see it it is on the blog. I will post early as I have my son tomorrow with out my daughter and he already has plans for mom and dad with out sister. Gifts to wrap, art projects, cards to play and such.
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I am baking mine directly after breakfast and before snow shoveling. there will be a lot of that going on. But I am excited about cakes.
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This is a chocolate cherry cake I made. The kids wanted a cake and I do not have $20 to spend on the one they wanted. So I made my old standby. I use to make these when Junior and I were dating. I simply take a chocolate cake and make according to the package direction. Before I place into the pans I add about 1/2 of the pie filling to the mix and mix well. I bake the cakes according to package direction. I then let them cool. I even out the tops so it will be easy to stack. I place on cake down and then put the other half of the pie filling into the center leaving about 1 inch around the edges so they don't squish out when frosting the cake. I place the other cake on top. I let it sit for a few minuets to soak up some moisture. I then used canned icing (I feel better just not that much better.) I topped it with a Hershey bar that Wesley bammed for me in a zip top bag. This can be a strawberry chocolate cake by changing 2 things. The pie filling needs to be the strawberry gel that you get in the produce section and you need to add a small package of strawberry jello to the cake mix when making it. (If you add jello to white cakes they turn colors and flavors. Wesley's favorite is the blue cake.)-
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Joe and I would love this one. Like chocolate covered cherries in a cake. Yes!
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Here's my addition for the day - I didn't make this today as we are having it for Christmas Day and needs to be made a little closer to then. This is one I made way back in 1997. I can't for the life of me remember which magazine I first saw this in, but it became an instant favorite. I've changed the inside several times, but our favorite is white cake with raspberry filling and buttercream frosting. The snowflakes are white chocolate coating piped into shapes on parchment paper and dotted with gold dragees. Metallic dragees are illegal in California, but can be found to purchase online for any other state.
The cake I like the best is Dorie Greenspan's Perfect Party Cake. The first time I made it was for a Daring Baker's Challenge and I make it very often now. Here's a link to the cake recipe: www.ezrapoundcake.com/archives/2093
There is no recipe for the snowflakes - just follow instructions above and press into the icing on the side of the cake and pile on top.-
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Annie, Looks great! I am going to go outside and make a real snow cake! Ha.
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Hello Everyone! I made this flourless chocolate cake yesterday and put it together today.
Ingredients:
1 cup sweet butter
½ cup water
1 tsp. instant espresso coffee
1 tsp rum extract
½ tsp vanilla extract
¾ cup sugar
3 tablespoons strawberry preserves
18 – 1 ounce squares Baker’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate Squares
6 eggs
Powdered sugar for garnish
1 pint fresh strawberries
Preheat oven 300 degrees:
Butter two 8 inch baking dishes.
In a small saucepan over medium heat combine water, sugar and espresso coffee and stir until sugar is completely dissolved. Add rum extract and vanilla extract to this and set this aside.
In a double boiler melt the chocolate squares. Pour the chocolate into a bowl and cut pieces of the butter into the chocolate. Beat the chocolate and butter mixture with an electric mixer adding the hot sugar water and the eggs one at a time.
Pour the batter into the prepared pans. Have a pan larger than the cake pan ready. Put the cake pan into the larger pan and fill the pan with boiling water halfway up the sides of the cake pan.
Bake the cake in a water bath at 300 degrees for about 30-35 minutes.
Remove from oven and chill in the refrigerator overnight in the pans.
To unmold, dip the bottom of the cake pans into hot water for about 10 seconds and invert onto the serving platter. Spread the strawberry preserves over the first cake and top with the second layer.
Garnish with the fresh strawberries and powdered sugar.
This is a rich and decadent dessert worthy of any holiday!
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I wish I could eat some of this!
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what did you think of this cake? How did it taste?
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I thought I replied to this several days ago! This is so pretty decorated the way you have it. I love flourless chocolate cake.
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Mine are out of the oven just need to upload photos.
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First I baked an orange juice yellow cake with drizzled white buttercream icing w/ Grand Marnier.
This is what is looks like all naked.
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Hello Theresa, That cake sounds delicious! The frosting sounds delightful. A piece of that cake and a cup of espresso, I think I can taste it.
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I did taste it Catherine and the liquor really made it special. The second cake I am giving away to my downstairs neighbor with four little children.
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Then I baked an (egg white) white cake with a sprinkling of 10X sugar and some colorful sprinkles.
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You are an artist! How pretty! It looks like is should be in Santa's bakery.
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I must admit it was all of the pans molding that created it. I just measured and poured.
Thanks! Santa Claus is such a grand old man.
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I agree.
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I still bake him cookies and every Christmas morning the milk and all of the cookies are gone ... And ... I didn't eat them.
It's really quiet tonight. Is it snowing in New York yet?
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It's been snowing since the afternoon and it's still coming down!
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It's going to keep coming down until you have about 10 to 25 inches of snow. Get someone to shovel for you. Don't you try to do it yourself.
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I have to feed the babies and we need to dig out our car. I need to help him because the wind is blowing so and I don't want him out there by himself. I'll check back later.
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Please stay safe and I will chat with you later.
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My son and daughter will help me shovel.
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One year my neighbor called up and asked me who the "little boy" was shoveling my driveway and if I could send him over to do theirs, I answered the "little boy" was me!
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I think this is so funny! Ha ha!
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I got a good giggle out of this! One time my brother-in-law called and when I answered the phone he said, "Hey, Declan!" - problem there is that Declan is my 10 year-old son! LOL I guess I sound like a kid, still
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